Using COTS search engines and custom query strategies at CLEF

Authors:
David Nadeau;Mario Jarmasz;Caroline Barrière;George Foster;Claude St-Jacques
Affiliations:
Language Technologies Research Centre, Interactive Language Technologies Group, National Research Council of Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada;Language Technologies Research Centre, Interactive Language Technologies Group, National Research Council of Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada;Language Technologies Research Centre, Interactive Language Technologies Group, National Research Council of Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada;Language Technologies Research Centre, Interactive Language Technologies Group, National Research Council of Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada;Language Technologies Research Centre, Interactive Language Technologies Group, National Research Council of Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
Venue:
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation strategies are compared. We present the experiments and the corresponding results for the CLEF 2004 event.